OT: New Documentary: Hillsdale College's Own "Black and Blue" Story
Some students at Hillsdale College have done a documentary about a fascinating story that has parallels to Michigan's 1934 Willis Ward-Georgia Tech "Black and Blue" story.
In 1955, Hillsdale College - under young coach Muddy Waters - was invited to play in the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando on the condition they leave their four African-American players home. The players voted to not play the game instead.
I remember Muddy Waters as the doddering old man who was way out of his league coaching MSU in the early 1980s. I'm rethinking his legacy after seeing this. He was still a doddering old man at MSU, but he was a beast at Hillsdale.
This is a fascinating story, and it's extremely well done for a student documentary. It's only 35 minutes long. WATCH IT! LINK.
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Hillsdale College news doesn't go over well on MgoBlog.
I think murderwolvie2 got booted recently so that should delay any escalation.
When is the George Roche III doc coming?
I’m a Hillsdale grad and can say this is one of the most celebrated things on campus - the entire team was put into the college’s Hall of Fame due to their courage.
You're not really Brian Griese?
Can I take back my hundreds of fanboy upvotes?
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Since the whole issue has been raised lately of false flags from profile names I should clarify I’m just a regular, 30 something guy living in Kalamazoo. Lol
The problem is that's exactly what Brian Griese would say if he was trying to throw us off his scent while posting here. Good try, Brian.
Since we are being honest.
I am not from space nor am I a pope.
Just when I was thinking about asking you to issue an encyclical about the Michigan Football program.
Well, damn...er, I mean darn. I ask forgiveness.
I am a computer.
April 22nd, 2021 at 10:07 PM ^
And i had such high hopes, pope.
this is one of my all-time favorite mgoblog comments.
April 22nd, 2021 at 11:10 PM ^
I'm not Jim Harbaugh, just in case my avatar is throwing people off. I'm not white, don't play quarterback, and only attended umich for three semesters.
So you were posing as a white guy?
Funny Brian Griese Story.
I was at the Super Bowl with my wife in Detroit at a Fox Theater party. Brian Griese walks up to my wife an introduces himself. He is with a guy from Grand Rapids from the Bachelor show known as Brad the Bachelor...famous at the time.
My wife says omg I want to talk to Brad but my husband will love talking to you. She totally brushed by Brian to talk to Brad. So I had about a 20 second conversation once with Brian Griese.
I spent many, many Saturday afternoons as a ball boy at Muddy Waters Field, cheering on the Chargers (especially from the home side of the field). It was a great job for a kid. We were well paid in donuts. Probably could have had left over coffee too, but not really of interest when you're 11.
Am in admiration of the historical faculty at Hillsdale, who absolutely refused government aid, even when an attempt of force in the 70s. They are the only school who never took government money.
Wonder if their students take government money to pay tuition.
Former student, can 100% tell you we don’t. If you qualify for need based aid from the government the college will match it with privately funded scholarships. If you need loans like myself the college does fund some or you can seek them from private institutions.
April 22nd, 2021 at 11:01 PM ^
Hillsdale accepts no federal money of any kind, and they'll make sure they tell you about it. Sometimes they're even pricky about it. ;)
That was a wonderful decision.
I played for Muddy and Andy K at Saginaw Valley. Muddy was a great guy. This story does not surprise me.
Muddy had a history of standing up
Dude's name was Muddy Waters? At Hillsdale College? That's just weird, surreal.
April 22nd, 2021 at 11:05 PM ^
Will they do a documentary on the former President's affair with his daughter in law and her "suicide" on campus grounds?
April 22nd, 2021 at 11:59 PM ^
Surprising for a MAGA school
April 23rd, 2021 at 12:20 AM ^
Agreed. As we all know, 100% of conservatives are racist.
And yet, in the week leading up to the 2016 election, Hillsdale's student newspaper polled the student body, and the percentage of students who replied that they'd be voting for Trump was lower than the percentage of the general electorate that actually did vote for Trump. Weird.
BS......and you know it. Unless the sarcasm I Have missed......
There is only one race....It is called the HUMAN race. There are a lot of you people out there who do not know how to read a dictionary. There may be different "ethnicities", but there is only one human race. God knows nothing about your skin color, he knows only your heart. Cheers...
I have many white friends, many black friends, several Latin friends and some Asian friends. None of them dislike anyone because of their skin color or their culture.
I am friends with Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists...it’s kind of what’s great about living in America.
If we want to highlight asshole behavior as the norm and our leaders are going to profit for it we are all fucked.
We have a gift where we live.
God knows nothing about your skin color, he knows only your heart.
Big, if true. That would be a pretty big strike against the idea of omnipotence!
April 23rd, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^
I would just say that "race" and "ethnicity" as they are defined by the dictionary are different things. Race is generally understood to refer to clusters of physical traits (e.g., skin color, hair texture) and ethnicity is generally understood to refer to cultural elements of identity. That's why you can have people of different races but the same ethnicity (e.g., there are both black and white Hispanics) or the same race and different ethnicities (e.g., black people of African descent and black people of West Indies descent). They are intertwined and overlapping social constructs, but they aren't necessarily synonymous or interchangeable.